----- Original Message -----
From: "Alastair Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 3:38 PM
Subject: modperl questions
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> -- how to add new aliases to httpd.conf or ./conf/clients.pl
> without having to restart apache ??
Why not use a perl handler?
Put all the logic in perl libraries and not perl scripts.
Make 1 perl package for communicatio between apache and the perl library.
Then define a location in the apache handler once:
<Location /Client>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler FOO::Client
</Location>
In the package FOO::Client make a subroutine named "handler".
use FOO::SomeApplication;
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
my ($command, $params) = split ("&", $r->args, 2);
my %params = map {s/\+/ /g; s/%([0-9a-zA-Z]{2})/chr(hex($1))/eg; $_} map
{split /=|$/, $_, 2} split /&/, $r->args();
$params = "&$params" if $params;
my $client = substr ($r->path_info(),1);
# do your stuff here
}
Then you can use UR's like:
https://www.foo.co.za/Client/johnson
https://www.foo.co.za/Client/Pete
The URL will not point to a file, but to a resource.
Th eclient name will be in $client in the handler shown above.
Hope this puts you in the right direction.
> second question:
>
> Now that we have multiple application and database instances
> running concurrently, how do we ensure that filehandle and
> Apache::DBI symbols are reliably encapsulated in their
> own namespsaces, all running off the same codebase ?
>
See above
You can use different perl packages for each <Location ....>
So you can use multiple applications.
You can even set HTTP authentication for each <Location...>
This way you might be able to use you existing perl packages without
migrating them.
Hope this puts you in the right direction.
Maarten.
